Hazard has the door open

Team names continue to emerge that, according to the British press, could show interest in adding Eden Hazard to their squads, both in January and for the next course. Chelsea and Newcastle, the new rich of European football thanks to the Saudi capital, had already sprung up in previous weeks; Y the last to appear was West Ham, a great revelation of the Premier League so far and that holds the fourth place right now.

The Belgian’s passage through Real Madrid so far is a failure, without palliative: he has barely played 54 games in two and a half years, in which he has scored five goals and given nine assists. Madrid paid Chelsea 100 million fixed and another amount in variables (which practically will not have been executed, in view of his individual performance and that Madrid has barely won a League and a Super Cup since his arrival), but his path has already started crooked.

He showed up for his first preseason in white clearly overweight, which led to a muscle injury. When he was gaining flight, an entry by his compatriot Meunier during a Madrid-PSG left him out for several months; He did not have surgery and came back, but he relapsed and there he did undergo surgery to treat his battered right ankle. Zidane, however, always tried to get him back, and Ancelotti also at the beginning, but he has grown tired of waiting, apparently: Hazard has not been a starter since September 28, against the Sheriff at the Bernabéu. And it has no minutes since November 6.

Ancelotti has been clear about his situation: “He is ready to play, but the problem is that there is a coach who prefers another player at the moment “. The great moment of Vinicius and that Carletto believes that Hazard has to play on the left does not help the Belgian, yes or yes; It is true that the right wing already has a well-nourished competition: Rodrygo, Asensio, Lucas, Bale … For some things or for others, the fact is that right now Hazard counts little or nothing: he barely takes 415 minutes and is the 17th of the squad in minutes played.

Madrid wants, Hazard does not

So much so that Madrid, if an offer were to come, would think very seriously about it. Hazard was a bet of the club, but after two and a half years it is assumed that the footballer who marveled at Chelsea will not return in full, if perhaps a few drops at specific times. And his salary is a real slab in the white wage bill: He earns 30 million gross per season, with Bale being the highest paid on the team. Much for a footballer who fails to enter the few rotations of Ancelotti. And that high salary is the main obstacle to finding a destination for him, few teams can afford emoluments like this.

The idea of ​​Real Madrid would be to recover a part of the investment that it made in its day for Hazard, but it knows that at this moment is difficult. Hence, if a proposal arrives to leave half of the course left on loan, the club would see it favorably. After six months away from Madrid, playing regularly if injuries respect him, the option of selling the Belgian in the summer (in which Mbappé will also surely come, adding a competitive advantage in the attack) will go up many integers. The player, for his part, does not seem to be for the work: according to Cadena COPE, citing sources from the footballer’s environment, he does not consider leaving in JanuaryShe is waiting for the birth of her fifth child and she wants it to happen in Spain.